Queen of the Cicadas

Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas. In 1950s south Texas a farmworker is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not by the Aztec goddess of death, Mictecacíhuatl...

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2021
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel


2018 - Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend, Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban legend, "La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas."


In 1950s south Texas, a farmworker named Milagros from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is brutally murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not by the Aztec goddess of death, Mictecacíhuatl. The goddess hears Milagros's dying cries and creates a plan for both of them to be physically reborn by feeding on vengeance and worship.


Belinda and the new owner of the farmhouse, Hector, find themselves immersed in the legend and realize it is part of their fate as well.


FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018, the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Weight: 352g
Dimension: 220 x 150 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787586031